Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

The superficiality of many is a result of deep fears. It takes spare time to think things out; it takes free time to mature. People in a hurry may not think well or mature well. The next best is a state of perpetual puerility.

All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.